"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American." (Andy Warhol, on Ronald Reagan as president, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989)

"I never read, I just looked at pictures." (Andy Warhol)

"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'" (Andy Warhol, America, 1985)

"I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote." (Andy Warhol)

"I'm afraid that if I look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." (Andy Warhol)

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985)